The sole focus of Acorn’s speech therapy for the last five months has been on getting him to correctly pronounce /f/ sounds. He can do it most of the time when reminded, but in casual speech it usually comes out as some other sound. A couple of months back, he learned the word “fart,” and while he didn’t find it as amusing as somepeople’schildren seem to, he’s usually a very polite child and wanted to excuse himself after that.

So he started saying, “Excuse me, I charted!”

Doesn’t quite have the same effect, does it? And thus I found myself painstakingly teaching my three-year-old to say “fart.”

I was inspired to share this last story thanks to a comment at Finslippy. It amused me to realize that unlike the commenter’s child, my son can say Nemo just fine, but one of the major taboo words in our culture would come out of his mouth as “chuck.”

You’re quite welcome, Sarah. Your site is one of my regular reads. Finslippy made me think of that story, and then I thought, “Who has kids Acorn’s age who are obsessed with potty jokes?” And I knew I’d get to link to you.

But if you have some hits from some pretty odd searches on your blog today? Sorry. That was me, trying to find an appropriate post.